"The Vanua rebels have currently occupied the area from Sango Port to the Greve Pass. Only a few legion companies are conducting guerrilla operations in the mountains, hoping to be rescued as soon as possible."
In the Senate, a battlefield sand table was placed on the ground, and war games of different colors were placed in various towns and passes. Several generals were holding pointers to explain the current battlefield situation.
However, compared to the legion generals who were still calmly assessing the situation, the members of the Senate fell into quarrels without any surprise——
"What are those coastal fortresses for? Just let the pirates come up like this? Vanua has not dared to attack our coast on a large scale for nearly a hundred years, but it actually captured many towns in a short period of time?"
"How many years have the coastal fortresses been abandoned? The updates of weapons and equipment have completely failed to keep up with the times. The Mutual Protection Alliance uses powerful energy-guided artillery on the Wildfire Islands, and the crossbows of our coastal fortresses can hardly be used.
!”
"If your naval fleet hadn't swallowed up all the military expenditures, the defensive armaments everywhere wouldn't be so weak!"
"Now the problem is blamed on us? If we don't have a strong naval fleet, how can we develop colonies and protect the interests of various chambers of commerce? You all agreed at the beginning, and your investment in the chamber of commerce has made a lot of money.
It’s full!”
"Are you talking about colonies? Now that the New World has almost been lost, our Chamber of Commerce can only go further south to compete with the frogmen and snake people for the rainforest. And your naval fleet has been watching the whole process and has not played any role!"
"We said at the beginning that we would concentrate our efforts on dealing with the Mutual Protection Alliance and seize the dominance of the southern route. But you just focused on the rich profits of the northern route and insisted on letting the naval fleet blockade the Jarnod barbarians in the north. As a result, you were taken advantage of.
A big fireball hit, the fleet was almost wiped out, and it was a strategic misjudgment, who of you is responsible?!"
"Nazarui made a mistake, do we have to be responsible for it? Do you have the ability to go find the Eye of Mystery to settle the accounts yourself and see if they are willing to admit it now?"
"Don't do this! You married your daughter to the high mage of the Mysterious Eye, and even now you are still flirting with him. Do you really think that the Holy Son knows nothing about it?"
"You have the nerve to accuse me?! Didn't your good-for-nothing son also get sent to the Tower of Pentagram? He's not good at arcane arts, and he wants to go to Evergreen City to seduce the 'Duke of the Heart'?"
As soon as these words came out, the Senate was immediately filled with mutual abuses. Several legion generals just turned a blind eye to this with a straight face.
Seeing that these nobles, whose physical functions had returned to their prime, were about to take off the backs of their chairs and smash them against each other, a burst of blood burst out from the depths of the hall.
"Quiet!"
An angry rebuke made the entire hall tremble with sound waves, and the gorgeous crystal lamp suspended from the dome swayed.
Sodifen stepped out slowly, with a large shadow behind him that was like a living creature, and there were vaguely five huge figures. With a cold expression, he looked around at the nobles in the Senate and said: "I gave you a new life because you are loyal to me.
, instead of wasting time on unnecessary arguments."
The nobles in the Senate quickly stood up to greet him. No one dared to speak nonsense and listened obediently to Sodiphon's reprimand.
"The Vanua group of pirates were able to succeed only because they received the assistance of the Eye of Mystery." Sodifen said: "To be precise, it was led by the Archmage Buñeto, and it did not belong entirely to Nazarui or Nazareth.
Shadovan's power. The empire is not monolithic, and neither is the Eye of Mystery."
"Holy Son, we have currently detected some relevant information." A general next to him said: "The Vanua rebels are also funded by the southern commercial city-states headed by Changxia City, from weapons and equipment to food supplies, and even a large number of employees.
The military is involved. We have targeted several of these chambers of commerce, and they also have industries within the empire. Do we want to seize them?"
"Long Gorge City?" Sodifen asked thoughtfully, "Are there large-scale magic rituals going on near there?"
The general replied: "Our prophetic mage once mentioned that there seems to be a very strong necromancy effect in the Changxia City area."
A trace of blood flashed in Sodifen's pupils. He seemed to sense something, so he said: "The chamber of commerce that provides funding to the Vanua rebels immediately arranges personnel to keep an eye on their properties, but do not alarm them. In addition, let the prophecy method be used to
I’m keeping an eye on the situation in Changxia City and I want to personally investigate!”
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The newly completed Psychic Hermitage does not look like a religious building at all from the outside. It does not have any gorgeous decorations. It is just a square earth and stone fortress standing on a hillside with a winding path leading down.
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However, outsiders cannot see this monastery at all. The psychic shield blocks it and hides it. If it is not close detection, large-scale prophecy spells cannot detect the existence of the monastery.
In fact, this psychic hermitage is not built with earth and stone, but imitates the psychic dome device built by the "leader" in the underdark area, using psychic powers to shape the crystal steel. The thin crystal steel building can automatically integrate with the surrounding environment
The material simulates the color and touch of earth and stone materials.
Therefore, the entire psychic monastery is like a special magic weapon. As the psykers inside adjust their breath and meditate, the monastery itself seems to be undergoing sacrifice, and a psychic network slowly unfolds.
After all, not everyone can be like Xuan Weizi, who can single-handedly attract the essence of heaven and earth to form an altar. And to layer up multiple spiritual talismans and form an altar, it requires very advanced psychic powers.
Even in terms of alchemy cultivation, people with such qualifications and talents belong to a very small minority, and they can only be encountered but not sought after.
However, after traveling in the Dark Territory, Xuan Weizi roughly figured out a way to develop and grow spiritual energy - since one person's spiritual power is not strong enough, then gather the spiritual power of everyone, or even the spiritual power of tens of millions of people.
In the view of legendary psychics like Xuan Weizi, ordinary people are exuding spiritual power all the time, and it is weak and thin, like smoke that can be blown away by a gust of wind. Skilled psychics can try to capture these weak
The spiritual power of the individual can be used for one's own use, but the individual's spiritual power is of little significance.
In the past, the group that could best gather spiritual power was undoubtedly the Holy Lord Church. The spiritual power with a high degree of consistency and clear goals formed the belief and will and became the source of miracles.
Similarly, the "leader" proclaims himself the God of psionic energy, uses the psionic network to confuse and control a large number of living creatures, guide their beliefs, and absorb them into willing power to continuously strengthen themselves. This is also a path.
The incarnation of the emperor that Xuan Weizi himself left in Evergreen City is also a container that carries the power of wishes, because while the Xinggang Altar expands to the entire Mutual Protection Alliance, it also invisibly absorbs the power of belief and wish of all living beings. And Xuan Weizi
In front of a saint, he will inevitably become the target of these wishes. Shadovan once said that he is the king of gods on earth, and this is indeed true.
But now Xuan Weizi's incarnation also has another idea, that is, it does not pursue a clear direction and highly homogeneous belief and will power, but relies on the psychic network to directly capture the spiritual power emitted by ordinary people on a large scale.
This move is actually equivalent to channeling the spiritual storm in the star realm into usable energy. But the biggest problem is that the spiritual power of ordinary people is chaotic, changeable, and fragmented. If you want to absorb these spiritual powers into
To use it for your own use, you must have a level of spiritual energy that touches the collective unconscious, goes deep into the sea of consciousness of all living beings, and extracts endless but lazy energy.
In the practice of alchemy, reaching this step is equivalent to entering and exiting the sea of suffering and refining the soul. If you are just a psychic, it is like a new transformation of the soul. A highly condensed soul can even abandon the body and become independent.
Chang Cun, although he is a kind of ghost and immortal who has shed his shell, he can also be said to have great supernatural powers.
It was late at night, Xuan Weizi's incarnation was sitting cross-legged in a meditation room in the monastery, holding a light mirror in his hand, but he could sense the spiritual beings within a radius of dozens of miles. They fell asleep and dreamed, and even more generated capacity.
Considerable mental strength.
Xuan Weizi's fingertips traced the outline of the mirror, and spiritual talismans were imprinted into the void. As the spiritual warriors in other meditation rooms adjusted their breaths, the invisible spiritual energy network extended, expanded, and thread-like in the space around the monastery.
The astral body penetrated into the monastery, making the building more solid.
This newly developed psychic network does not allow the psychic to directly obtain spiritual power from the outside world. It is like using a vessel to collect rainwater. When necessary, the rainwater in the vessel is used directly instead of opening the mouth directly.
Drink it. What the psyker wants to change is the "vessel shape", thereby forming various psychic effects.
In this way, the Golden Flower Society has found a source of psychic energy other than the psychics themselves. Even if the ordinary people under the mountain do not respect Xuan Weizi or the "Duke of the Mind", or even do not understand psychic powers, this
The psychic network also collects psychic powers indiscriminately for use by the psykers of the Immortal Golden Flower Society.
It can be said that the incarnation of Xuan Wei Zi has created unprecedented changes in psychic abilities without making a sound. The biggest difference between psykers and other spellcasters in the past is that the psionic effects almost entirely come from the psykers themselves.
Although it is a good habit to pay attention to tapping one's own power within, there is almost no use of external power. This also makes the psyker's connection and transformation of the external reality much weaker than other spellcasters.
Today's Order of the Stars has a bright future, but the Golden Flower Society still lacks fundamental changes.
Fortunately, Xuan Weizi finally found a feasible way - not to rely on ghosts and gods, but to focus on all living beings. Instead of relying on stubborn and exclusive beliefs to seize the power of wishes, he should accommodate the thoughts of all living beings with a mind of harmony with light and dust.
"Huh?" Xuan Weizi, who was sitting in meditation, felt something in a trance. He tapped the mirror, silently signaling the other spiritual warriors to continue their practice. He quietly left the meditation room. Just as he was about to walk out of the monastery, his body turned and changed.
She became the female mage of Mithras.
In the dark forest outside the monastery, there was silence, and a bat hanging upside down on a branch remained motionless. When a tall and graceful female mage walked under the tree, she shook her crystal scepter and said, "Have you seen enough?
Do you want to show up on your own initiative, or do you want to reward you with a fireball before you come down?"
After hearing this, the bat shook its wings reluctantly, revealing the figure of Count Gulig. As soon as he landed on the ground, he bowed deeply to Xuan Weizi, with a very seductive smile on his face: "This beautiful lady
The lady must be Mithra Nova, right?"
"Oh? I didn't expect that I would attract the attention of the vampire elders." Xuan Weizi, who turned into a female form, smiled movingly: "I just didn't expect that you would actually find this place?"
Count Gulig replied: "It is naturally impossible to pinpoint your location just by the prediction detection of the necromancers of the Decay School. But I am relatively free, and the scent of Miss Jeanne is really attractive to me, so I came here.
In this area, I later discovered that there were some powerful warriors traveling to distant mountains and forests, so I followed them here out of curiosity."
Although the monastery is secretive and difficult to find for ordinary people, powerful beings like vampire elders can still be found if they want to, and Xuan Weizi does not find this surprising.
"Curious? Did you come here specifically to see me?" Xuan Weizi crossed his arms across his chest and raised his balls high.
"For a lady as beautiful as you, even if I have to cross the sea, I will definitely take the initiative to visit you." Count Gulig said with a smile.
Xuan Weizi's smile remained unchanged, and with a flick of the crystal scepter in his hand, the vampire elder's eyes burst out with two balls of flame, causing him to scream in pain.
"Next time you talk nonsense, it won't be your eyeballs that will be burned off." Xuan Weizi covered her mouth and smiled. Not only would her appearance change when she transformed into a woman, but her words and deeds would also undergo subtle changes.
Seeing Count Gulig's eyes heal quickly, Xuan Weizi secretly marveled and said, "Okay, what's the reason for you coming here?"
Count Gulig was angry, but he could only hold it back and said: "The Decay School entrusted me to explain to you that their ceremony is about to be completed. I hope that you will restrain your personnel and not interrupt their ceremony. After it is over, they
I will naturally leave Changxia City and won’t bother you again.”
"That's it?" Xuan Weizi asked, thinking that these necromancers were really good at doing things. He had no intention of destroying the ceremony again, but the other party came directly to explain.
Earl Gulig said angrily: "If your Excellency needs any compensation, they can provide it... But let me say one more thing, the Decay School is very poor, and all their wealth has been lost on this ceremony. You can't expect it either."
How much money and money have been plundered from them, their life is comparable to that of the ascetic monks in the church, they don’t even eat much meat, I can hardly stand it anymore.”
Xuan Weizi was also slightly startled. These days, mages who can pursue arcane achievements with almost practical beliefs are really rare. Those who embark on the path of mages do not think that one day they will master powerful power and be superior to others.
Taken from me?
"Don't worry, I will no longer interfere with the actions of the decadent school." Xuan Weizi also said: "But I also advise you, just because I don't interfere doesn't mean that others won't interfere."
"Okay, I will repeat this to the decadent school." Count Gulig looked at Xuan Weizi: "I just don't know if I can invite a beautiful lady to enjoy the midnight moonlight together?"
"Okay, I just want to know the functions of the internal organs of the vampire elder." Xuan Weizi showed a charming smile, which directly scared Count Gulig into a bat, and it was difficult to trace him after he escaped into the night.